The Malicious Member is Back! - Chapter 248



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The Malicious Member Returns! Episode 248

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Due to the unexpected return of Hobin and Jaeha, the ego surfing with Logan and the search for the trainees, which was scheduled for two days, had to end in one day.

“Brother Jaeha, I really… will live a good life. I promise. I’ve never had any accidents in the past.”

“Umm, Logan. I don’t know what you saw… .”

“Everything. I saw it all!”

Well, looking at Logan’s reaction now, it seems like it didn’t even need to take two days.

“I mean, I never thought there would be a case like this. Of course, there were trainees who dropped out of … But, yeah? god, my heart still feels pounding… .”

From the moment he met Hobin and Jaeha, Logan emphasized his innocence by wagging his invisible tail and used fancy vocabulary such as ‘I realized how ignorant I was all this time.’

“… I will really live a good life. From now on, I plan to be celibate? Celibate. I only have Xenia.”

That determination, that will, that terrified face.

This thing is really effective.

“Mr. Chun-Yong. What on earth is going on…?”

“Logan, let’s eat first. Okay? Chun-yong… Talk to me before you eat.”

Because of that, there was a bit of confusion, doubt, and worry in the eyes of my brothers looking at me.

“haha….”

Well, even I didn’t expect it to be this bad.

I stood in the living room, scratching my cheek, looking at Logan’s back as he was dragged into the kitchen by his two brothers.

“… … .”

And slowly, the smile that had appeared on my lips disappeared.

Well, things are more complicated than I thought.

From the beginning, it wasn’t my intention to do this search to traumatize Logan or to impress upon him the dangers of ego surfing.

As I said before, the intention was to prevent any potential problems and to find out in advance which trainees might be ‘other guys’.

however….

“Oh, this guy came from overseas like me. His name is… Henry? He’s handsome.”

“Yeah. He’s really handsome. He kind of looks like Jaeha hyung… .”

“Oh, but… .”

During that search process… .

“Oh, discovered polyamory in a secret Outgram account?”

“… … .”

“Hey, is it okay for an idol trainee to date multiple people?”

“… Will it work? Oh, will it work? I can’t even date normally, but polyamorous relationships?”

“Bloody, you dated four people at the same time… I think I know that this isn’t right.”

I had no idea that these bombs would be discovered.

My original plan was this.

Together with Logan, we will look up information on the trainees who are currently spread out here and there, and if there is a trainee who seems suspicious, we will ask X.

– Kim Chun-yong: Hey X

– Kim Chun-yong: That skill you gave me this time

– Kim Chun-yong: Can I use it anytime?

– Kim Chun-yong: So, even if it’s not on stage?

– X: Hey, of course. What do you think of me?

– X: Don’t you know about the personalized service X♡ that comes to you?

– X: Seriously, give me the target all of a sudden! It’s not like it’s something ridiculous, but I can help you as much as I can.

– X: Tsk tsk They say that if the user of a service has lower intelligence than the service, it will be used incorrectly.

– Kim Chun-yong: Go away

Since X said that the strange skill [What is this? What is this?] that he was so confident in was a skill that helped me, he should have been able to give me enough information about that trainee.

Well, it’s not very specific, but either he debuted or he didn’t.

That was enough.

Anyway, it is an undeniable fact that having someone like X by your side makes debuting easier.

In skills, abilities, and Pokedex rewards.

I think I might have had an easier debut if Liu Wei hadn’t been there.

So, I planned to pick out the trainees who made it to the debut group, remember them, and watch them closely throughout the survival show.

But, the more I looked, the more amazing it was.

“Huh, this one… is just a relationship. Haha, after seeing how shocking it was earlier, I think this is kind of okay.”

“Hey, what’s okay? What kind of dating is an idol trainee?”

Dating is the basics.

“This guy… um, I think he got into a fight with a school friend. But the writing is so emotional that it’s hard to read. Is this a curse word?”

“… Let’s skip it. It’s hard for me to watch either.”

“’육시랄’… Is there really such a word? Oh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use it.”

“Let’s pass it on, Logan!”

Involved in a violent incident with a school friend.

“Wow. Hyung Chun-yong. I heard you knew Ryota. I heard you went to the same middle school in the past?”

“Huh? Take a look. If Ryota’s friend, there’s a chance he’s a good person….”

“But, uh… Han, Han-hyeom?”

“… … .”

A guy who came to Korea across the ocean to debut even hates Korea.

What, there are so many controversies beyond imagination?

“Ah, this person is a private trainee, so there’s not much information about him. There’s only a picture. His name is… Noh Hyun-jae.”

“…Okay. Let’s write it down first.”

“This is the first trainee who has come out without any problems. I’ve already seen 8 out of 40.”

“Oh, that’s what I’m saying… .”

It was said that it would have been faster to weed out the problematic ones than to pick out the debut group.

“… Wait, Logan. Don’t read the comments.”

“What? But there are 999 of them here.”

“Yeah. But if all 999 of them are curses, can you handle it?”

“… Ugh.”

“From now on, when you search for your name, don’t look at the comments. The most important thing is not to look at the comments.”

Of course, even though I was flustered, I didn’t forget to tell Logan the basic conditions for ego surfing, but anyway.

That’s what happened.

is going to be much wilder and rougher than expected.

Among the mentors there, the one with the least experience is our Tioje, and if he doesn’t come to his senses, he’ll be in big trouble.

This was my conclusion.

“Yeah. That’s right. Logan and I checked out the trainees in advance… Well, it was necessary.”

“Yes. I was going to tell Logan something to be careful of when searching for his name….”

While Logan was eating in a daze, Jaeha, who started a conversation with me in the room, also looked a little confused.

Anyway, the three of us were going to be mentors in .

But what if the mentee we are assigned is a problematic trainee?

How should we treat and react to them?

I didn’t know that if the years had piled up for a long time.

You could evaluate the trainees objectively, keep your distance, and really just play the role of a mentor.

However, because we had debuted in a similar program just before, we were like role models to the trainees who are currently appearing on .

Can I really be so cruel to trainees who are my age or a little younger and blindly follow me?

Although there was a controversy over favoritism at the time, it was true that the trainees who trained for a long time at AG had a great emotional dependence on senior Min Si-young.

A sense of kinship that comes from knowing each other for a long time.

A similar kind of emotion to what we’re going to experience this time.

It was natural that Jae-ha’s worries deepened as he felt it firsthand, in his skin and bones.

“…Is your condition that bad?”

“Well, out of the 40 trainees, I checked about 20 of them who were leaked here and there. About half of them.”

“Hmm, what is this…?”

After a brief silence, I opened my mouth again as I watched Jaeha hyung check off the list of controversies about the trainees that I had written on a post-it note.

“… I’m sure you know, but most of this is just for ratings.”

“… … .”

okay.

Because this is PD Joo Chul Young’s original style.

They use controversial trainees to increase viewership, create buzz, and use trainees like expendable items.

was AG’s own survival program, so it wasn’t that bad, but if you think about his previous works, or , it was true.

Besides, not all of the leaked trainees were problematic trainees.

If that was the case, instead of doing an idol survival show, they would have opened a rehabilitation program.

Of course, the thought that PD Joo Chul-young might have thought of that crossed my mind for a moment… .

Let’s put that aside for now.

“… Here. With this guy, with this guy, this guy. Oh, and this guy too.”

Of the 20 trainees that Logan and I checked this time, there were 4 trainees who were clean without any minor issues.

Among them, the one that I remember the most was a personal trainee named Noh Hyun-jae.

[Nohyeonjae @Nohyeonjae_official]

An outgram account with a clean profile picture and only one singing video.

Even without having to emphasize it, I had a strong feeling that the past was neat and organized.

“I think these friends are probably trainees who were cast with their debut in mind.”

“Hmm.”

Jaeha hyung let out a short sigh as he understood what I was saying, and I nodded and continued.

“… I’m not saying we should be favoritism. I think we should know in advance which trainees we’re supporting on Music Days.”

“Yeah, that’s right. I can’t ask Hobin hyung to do something like this… .”

No matter how capable Hobin hyung was in taking care of us, in the end, it was me, Jaeha hyung, and Logan who ended up going out to film the program.

Hobin hyung couldn’t come inside the camera and take care of us.

We had to do what we did, and we had to decide in advance how we would treat controversial trainees or trainees with a strong chance of debuting.

“… Chun-yong, have you thought about something? I think I need to think about it from now on.”

“Roughly. Not sure though.”

“Hmm… Since , you’ve been good at judging situations like this.”

We stared into each other’s eyes for a moment in silence.

Although the roles have changed, it feels a bit like going back to the time of .

At that time, I was only thinking about how to somehow debut again with the Arrows members, and Jaeha hyung always acted calmly while struggling with the heavy burden together.

Even though quite some time has passed, seeing that I remember it so vividly makes me realize how tense we lived back then.

It was hard back then.

And we will see trainees having a hard time.

But now we are stronger than we were then, and we have more freedom to decide what to do next.

This time we will do well too.

I had to do well, and in the meantime, I had to achieve what I set out to do.

“… First, Logan, should we eat breakfast and then talk again? Chun-yong, you need to eat breakfast too.”

“Oh, I’ll just make a quick call and go out. Just a moment…”

After a short conversation, Jaeha hyung left the room with a slightly more determined expression, and I stared at the closed door for a moment before taking out my cell phone, which had been silent the whole time.

To finish the work that I couldn’t do due to the shocking state of the trainees and the early visit of my older brothers.

of course….

– Kim Chun-yong: Hey

– Kim Chun-yong: Hey X

– Kim Chun-yong: Let me use the skills you gave me.

– Kim Chun-yong: That wish ticket thing

– X: Hey, it’s not a wish list, it’s [what is this, what is this]

– Kim Chun-yong: Either that or that

– X: – – What is it?

– X: Tell me who will debut? Anyway, you don’t even remember that, you idiot

– Kim Chun-yong: It’s similar, but

– Kim Chun-yong: … Please tell me about the kids who debuted among the kids who were controversial.

– Kim Chun-yong: And there are also kids who are strangely clean.

Although the route has changed slightly.